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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 42 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.

Danger. Danger.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If he made a Christian AI, it would be shut down within a week for being too woke.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, but you assume it will be trained on the whole bible and not just the parts that enforce his will.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

There will be smiting of immigrants. Yea.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 201 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.

This gives those vibes.

It feels plain wrong.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made

You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.

And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You REALLY expect conservatives to actually follow the non oppressive sections of the scriptures?

Rotfl

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Curing cancer? Nooo

Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo

Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo

Let's build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot -- YES

I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Stop asking "what would Jesus do?", use Jesus API.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Save your soul for only 20.99 a month… wait I guess this isn’t really that new.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 48 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.

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[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 18 points 4 days ago

That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I'm calling BS and telling people they've just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 93 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

The ego on these people, calling themselves Christians but thinking God needs their help for his plans.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 36 points 5 days ago (7 children)

They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.

It's how they justify a lot of the shit they do.

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[–] Yaztromo@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Mark my words — but we’re going to see a time (in our lifetimes) where a group of people is going to worship an AI as “divine”. And you won’t be able to convince them otherwise. An AI-centric cult is all but inevitable at this point. And it will be self-reinforcing.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think it will take long either. When you look at all the grifts the American evangelists pull, and people fall for it every time, then you've got all these people thinking that Trump is anointed by God or some such crap. No problem at all in selling these idiots the idea that they have an instant always-on hotline to God via God's Chosen LLM. Then you've got them locked in to whatever psychosis you choose to construct for them.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.

And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.

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[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is why humanities degrees are important. We're putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???

Also:

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.

lol

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

We have TempleOS already, but thanks anyway.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

I think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 24 points 5 days ago

This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hastening the coming? He needs to reread the bible then.

"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." - Matthew 24:36

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If more Christians would read the bible, there'd be less Christians.

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[–] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (5 children)

religious loonies will likely be the end of us all.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

According to the Bible, the end times will come when God's good and ready. It's blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

~~An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return~~

An ex-intel CEO's idea to make money by combining two money making tools

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Having to reach waaay back into the memories of my Christian upbringing here, but I seem to recall that God doesn’t like people who try to game the system

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Is this irony or something? Use Ai to get closer to god? Its the exact opposite people need to do.

But who is surprised in this upside down world.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 4 points 4 days ago

Help me! I broke apart my insides!

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Pay no attention to the ex-Intel CEO behind the curtain.

These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.

Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

I hate zealots. Fuckin religious twats trying to ruin it for everyone else.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 39 points 5 days ago

When your god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and also can easily be manipulated by puny human technology into doing your bidding.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 39 points 5 days ago (5 children)

With all of this ‘hasten the coming of Christ’ talk it sounds like they’re planning on catching and trapping him.

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Just corporations trying to bring on the apocalypse so they don't have to pay a little more in taxes.

Normal stuff

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Fundamentalism is inherently opposed to scientific discovery and technological creativity.

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[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

This is the lamest Adeptus Mechanicus cosplay I’ve ever read about.

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Tech billionaires will totally destroy us all.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Hi there! It looks like you're trying to summon Jeebus!" --Fundy Clippy

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